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Patents for things like this make me feel like committing civil disobedience. Bolding the first few letters is something that needs patent protection? Give me a break. That's not a thing, man.
the author could've trademarked the name and sell it as "the original"
personally the only app i know that has the technology is Reeder RSS reader, although i've never found it convenient
I tried the samples on the bionic reading website, I don’t feel like this makes me read faster. Am I the only one?
It's always fun for me to see flashes in the pan come and go. I saw this first on reddit a few days ago and went "hmm, ok, whatever..." And then on HN today. Now I'm saying "Oh, someone's putting real effort into this thing. Shame, really, I wish they'd move on to something more productive or at the least talk to some experts about their goals. Sigh." And it'll be gone in a week, or a month at most. Sorry. "Convert T…
It would be very interesting to research what makes it more effective for some people than others. It implies some difference in how their brains or eyes are processing text.
Patents for things like this make me feel like committing civil disobedience. Bolding the first few letters is something that needs patent protection? Give me a break. That's not a thing, man.
Why spend my forcefully taken tax money protecting imaginary rights of a few inventors?
I understand the problem of industrial spies and creating something whose recipe is hard to find and easy to make, but I don't see why we should solve it societally for the large corporations which happen to have this issue.
Let them spend money suing their customers who violated some ToS and reverse engineered the formula, let them worry about vetting or doing suing their own employees. And if it's too expensive to pursue, consider it a natural tax of the market.
If they're creating something that will give value over a long period of time, they're already making more than the rest of the population who's paying for their patent bs and their copyright enforcement.
I tried the samples on the bionic reading website, I don’t feel like this makes me read faster. Am I the only one?
There is an accelerated reader I played with a few years ago, based on flashing the words for you with some letters colored in red. That increased reading speed mildly, but the lack of ability to quickly backtrack defeated any gains.
Saw this on reddit days ago, still waiting for someone to show any kind of scientific evidence for it's usefulness.
I wonder if the effectiveness of bionic reading would be improved by using a gradient of weights for each character - instead of just bolding the first half of the word, as this extension does. For example, Open Sans has six levels of weight: light, regular, medium, semi-bold, bold, and extra bold: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Open+Sans